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Large pit in the bedrock over Wells H and I. Fill of the pit thrown in after filling of Well H, containing almost entirely coarse ware. First 4m of Well I, filling the same. Below that Well I fill similar ... Late Roman- 1st c. A.D. (mainly early ?) |
Use filling of early to late 2nd c. A.D., and dumped filling of late 2nd c. Coins:
16 April 1948 #1-#6
17 April 1948 #5
28 April 1948 #1 ... POU 2nd c. A.D. |
Cistern System in East Portico.
Drawshaft with two blind tunnels, in court of House of the Greek Moisaic; partially excavated by Dorpfeld. No legible coins or amphora handles. Coins:
26 June 1964 # ΔΕ3 ... 2nd c. B.C. |
Byzantine 13th-14th c. A.D. |
Coins:
10 April 1937 #5 ... 4th-3rd c. B.C. |
Scanty dumped filling in an abandoned well cutting ... Ca. 425-420 B.C. |
Water channel in scarp above Bouleuterion Plateia; north passage, from mouth ... Latest 2nd or early 1st c. B.C. |
Red sandy earth at inner corner of heavy late wall at 12/ΛΖ.
A. Walker coin deposit. Coins:
27 March 1934 #1-#12
28 March 1934 #1-#2 ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D. |
Well cut through the floor of a cistern. Apparently a dumped fill in an unused well. Coins:
16 March 1934 #15 (illegible)
17 March 1934 #2
19 March 1934 #1-#4
20 March 1934 #1-#3
22 March 1934 #1
23 March ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
Associated with the Tholos.
Originally a well but after it had been in use for a short time the shaft was partially filled in and the upper part widened to form a large cistern.
The pottery falls into ... 335-250 B.C. |
Small amount of fill accumulated at bottom of well during use sealed by deposit of some 7.00m. of dug bedrock, thrown in to fill well to level of bottom of new cistern. Pottery closely similar to that ... 335-294 B.C. |
Coins:
26 April 1932 #1
27 April 1932 #1-#2
Only the pottery from last 1.00m of fill retained. Finds recorded in both Δ and Δ'. See Δ nbp. 114 for division of Δ into two parts, northern (Δ) and southern ... 4th c. A.D. |
Well at 96/Ι in arm of cistern at 94/Θ (F 15:2). Probably the rebuilding of an earlier well.
P 3149, P 3150, P 3154 are jars from packing in cistern arm; construction fill - early Roman.
P 4588 is listed ... Second half of 3rd c. A.D.=POU |
Actually 1 meter into section Δ, the well lies under a filling of primarily Hellenistic date which had been thrown in as underpinning for the support of a 2nd c. A.D. Roman tile-mosaic floor.
POU is 15.80-16.35m ... First half of 1st c. A.D. |
Cistern at 9/Β (10/Β on plan), at the NW foot of the Areopagus, some 200m to the west of the Coroplast's Dump. It had evidently belonged to one of the small houses in that thickly populated residential ... Second half 4th c. B.C. |
Nbp. 661: Dug in 1st c. Cleaned out almost to bottom shortly after the middle of the 3rd c. and used for a few years. During Herulian invasion of 267, Laughing Faun broken up and thrown in. Thereafter ... 1st-5th c. A.D., 2nd c. A.D.=POU |
| Cistern and well in Marble Worker's House. Coins:
5 August 1968 #1-#6 (#5 and #6 disintegrated. Missing 19/7/1973)
6 August 1968 #1bis-#25 (#5 in Lot 503 not a coin but bronze bits of nail. #6 not a coin ... 325-275 B.C. |
| Although separated by a sterile rocky fill the two use fillings are apparently one continuous accumulation (GRE).
Packing around well includes SS 14261, P 25943-P 25953. These are not given a subdivision ... 350-300 B.C. to ca. 225 B.C. |
Very little pottery and mainly broken tiles in this well, all mixed from Hellenistic to Early Byzantine (nbp. 1441) ... 25 May-1 June 1939 |
Roman Group L.
Layer I (cont. 59-64) Pre-Herulian second half of 3rd c. (bottom, 15.95-13.90).
Layer II (cont. 42-58) 4th c.-first quarter of 4th c. (11.90-13.90).
Layer III (cont. 17-41) -4th c. (10.00 ... Second half 3rd c.-early 5th c. A.D. |
Unfinished well, all one fill; solid bedrock at a depth of -2.47m.
It contained masses of broken rooftiles and probably was used as a refuse pit after the sack of Athens by Sulla.
Twenty-three stamped ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
Fills associated with construction of New Bouleuterion, i.e. inside porch, unused foundation trenches on west side and south side ... Down to last quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
| Extract from notebook ΠΘ XIX, pp. 3644-3646. Well at 105/ΝΗ (report on sorting of pottery, July 19, 1951 - H.S. Robinson).
"Not a useful well" HSR.
Well dug to 1.50m., vi/9/36; dug from 1.50m. to bottom ... Early Roman; use fillings of 2nd. c. B.C. and 1st. and 4th. c. A.D.; dumped filling of late 4th. c. (HSR)
Fill I: 2nd. c. B.C.
Fill II-V: to second half of 4th. c. A.D.
Fill VI: mixed to Byzantine. |
Coins:
22 April 1937 #1-#5 Containers 7-5 ... Second half of 1st. c. A.D. POU |
| Pit, partly cleared; dumped filling of first half of 3rd. c. B.C., but with considerable material of the 4th. c. Hellenistic.
Its rotten schist walls collapsed some time near then and it was filled up ... 4th-3rd c. B.C. |
| Pit (6x10) in the valley between the Areopagus and the Hill of the Nymphs. Large cutting in bedrock with 540 ostraka, mainly of the late eighties of the 5th. c. B. C. Much pottery, principally of the early ... Ca. 500-450 B.C. |
Fills from construction and reconstruction of a house. "Brown House" = House A (RSY Hesp. 20) (and pit under Layer 4) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Under the original floor of this house ... Second half of the 5th. c. B.C. |
West Terrace, South End, Layers IV and V. Heavy dumped filling associated with terrace walls at the extreme south end of the excavations in the Areopagus industrial area. The proportion of figured and ... Ca. 420-390 B.C. |
Well with overflow into cistern system. Probably Hellenistic in origin. POU late 1st. c. to early 3rd. c. Dumped filling of 4th. (and 5th.?) c.
Abandoned at 22.50m. because of water. Coins:
21 May 1937 ... Late 1st. c.-4th. c. A.D. (and 5th c. A.D.?) |
Coins:
4 June 1936 #12
22 June 1936 #1-#3 ... 4th. c. B.C. |
Fillings in a well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. The shaft reached a depth of 20.28m., but produced no use filling. The lower part, from water level at 12.60m. to bottom, provided only mud and gravel ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Coins:
27 April 1937 #6-#12
28 April 1937 #2
29 April 1937 #2
8 May 1937 #1-#2 15.40-19.50m. produced nothing ... 4th. c. A.D. |
| Fill in stone-curbed well P 35772 possibly belongs to this deposit, Lot 899 ... 3rd. c. A.D. |
Cistern in Room 12, House C=House N.
Simple flask-shaped chamber with draw shaft, in House M, Room 1; no tunnels. Excavated as single fill, but later analysis of material suggested two fills. Coins:
24 ... 4th. c. B.C. |
Fill perhaps from the dismantling of House N when it was abandoned; full of small stones and broken roof tiles (nb.p. 4398) ... Ca. 150 B.C. |
Cistern in valley west of the Areopagus. Dumped filling of late 1st. to early 2nd. c. and of 5th to 6th century. Coins:
7 June 1939 #12
8 June 1939 #18-#19
9 June 1936 #26 ... 1st.-2nd. c. A.D. |
| Grave XVII in notebook = RSY Grave 15.
Only lower half of skeleton preserved. Bones discarded? ... Last quarter of the 6th. c. B.C. |
Cistern with two fills. Lower fill in cone on floor, with dumped upper fill above. Coins:
27 April 1940 #3-#5
14 May 1940 #5-#6
15 May 1940 #3-#7
17 May 1940 #11-#13
20 May 1940 # 8-#9
21 May 1940 #1 ... Late Hellenistic |
In use up to the time of Sulla? Coins:
20 May 1940 # 8-#9
21 May 1940 #1 ... 1st. c. B.C. |
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